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Chinese Grammar
The Basic Structures of Modern Chinese.
Chinese grammar
is actually very simple and straightforward:
Chinese grammar has no
tenses and each verb has only one form. No matter what noun or pronoun
you use, the form of the verb remains the same.
To form a plural,
just add a character (们, mén) after the subject.
For example,
I learn
Chinese - 我学中文
We learn
Chinese - 我们学
中文
To talk about the
past and the future, just add extra characters ( 了, le）after the verb).
For example:
I go to
school - 我去学校
I went to
school yesterday - 我昨天去了学
校
With simply adding
characters for plurals, past and future tense, there's no need to learn
about conjugating verbs, let alone irregular ones.
There's also no
worry about adjective changes for comparative or superlative and no
verb-to-noun change with suffix.
Additional
characters will have to be used to express all those concepts.
For example:
small
- 小的
smaller
- 较小的
The Chinese
grammatical structure of a sentence is roughly the same as other
languages. Since there are so many things in common, concentrate and
focus your attention to the differences that give you the most
surprises.
Now, let's start
by looking at the basic elements of modern Chinese grammar:
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